Benin's late-1990s and early-2000s commemorative program was largely orchestrated through European coin marketing firms — this piece almost certainly never circulated in Benin and was struck for the collector export market, a common arrangement among CFA-zone nations whose nominal face values bore no relationship to actual purchasing power in the issuing country.
Benin's late-1990s and early-2000s commemorative program was largely orchestrated through European coin marketing firms — this piece almost certainly never circulated in Benin and was struck for the collector export market, a common arrangement among CFA-zone nations whose nominal face values bore no relationship to actual purchasing power in the issuing country.